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The new land law, reclassifying rural land as urban land, could become a structural reform of strategic interest in Portugal.
Under the motto 'A history of struggle, a legacy of April', the 8th conference promoted by the National Federation of Common Lands (Baladi), based in Vila Real, marks the 50th anniversary of the first common lands law.
Since the amendments to the regime known as the new Land Law came into force at the end of January 2025, which allows for the reclassification of rural land to urban for housing, only 27 reclassification procedures have been requested, of which 21 are completed and six are ongoing. For over a year and a half, the Government...
